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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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S. Korea lowers COVID-19 warning level, lifts last-remaining antivirus mandates
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Hackers used diverse methods
The latest nationwide hacking attack on Korea appears to have conspired via a wide assortment of methods, including the distribution of malicious spamware and seizing data servers. Network software at some of the hacking targets also was damaged after the culprits targeted the more vulnerable aspects of the software. The broadcasters, for instance, suffered damages to the boot sector of their operating systems, while the databases at banks such as Shinhan and Nonghyup malfunctioned because of at
March 21, 2013
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Pediatric strabismus
Strabismus refers to the condition where, when a person is looking at an object, one eye looks directly at the object while the other eye is looking elsewhere. Pediatric strabismus is a common condition seen in approximately 2 percent of children. This can be a cosmetic problem, and may cause a developmental delay in normal visual function, and poor vision. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment is important. Strabismus is divided into various forms depending on the expression type. Intermitte
March 21, 2013
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Treating ADHD without drugs
From horseback riding to physical exercise, new therapies designed to balance the brain and better emotional conditions are raising hopes to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder without drugs. Chung Yoo-sook, a doctor at the department of neuropsychiatrics at Samsung Medical Center, plans to run a three-month clinical trial to test the effectiveness of a horseback riding program in treating ADHD children. Typical treatment methods for ADHD patients are mostly drug-based, using attentio
March 21, 2013
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KEPCO-led consortium bags $2.3b Vietnam power deal
An international consortium led by state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. clinched a $2.3 billion deal to build a thermal power plant in Vietnam, KEPCO said Thursday.Under a build, operation and transfer deal, the consortium will build the coal power plant with a generation capacity of 1.2 million kilowatts by 2018 and operate the plant for the next 25 years before it is transferred to Vietnamese government.KEPCO and Japan’s Murabeni Corp. will have a 50 percent stake each in the power plant.The d
March 21, 2013
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Meritz Fire to raise W55.5b through rights offering
Meritz Fire & Marine Insurance Co., a South Korean nonlife insurer, said Thursday it plans to raise 55.5 billion won ($49.6 million) via a rights offering in a bid to improve its financial soundness. A total of 4.63 million new shares will be issued at 11,990 won each, of which 4.57 percent will be allotted to the Government of Singapore Investment Corp., a Singapore sovereign wealth fund, the company said in a regulatory filing. Meritz Fire had been pushing for issuing new shares in a bid to im
March 21, 2013
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LGE asks Samsung to pay for patents
LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday accused Samsung Display Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. of illegally using its technology and demanded the two companies pay for the patents, the latest development in the Samsung-LG display feud.Samsung Display and LG Display Co., the world’s two biggest display makers, have been embroiled in a patent tussle over organic light-emitting diode and liquid crystal display technologies that later expanded to their TV-making affiliates Samsung Electronics and LG Electr
March 21, 2013
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Samsung preparing wristwatch as it races Apple for sales
Samsung Electronics is developing a wristwatch as Asia’s biggest technology company races against Apple Inc. to create a new industry of wearable devices that perform similar tasks as smartphones. “We’ve been preparing the watch product for so long,” Lee Young-hee, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile business, said during an interview in Seoul. “We are working very hard to get ready for it. We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them.” Lee had no co
March 21, 2013
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Hands-free toothbrush developed
Two Canadians have developed a new type of toothbrush that works by the movement of the tongue.The gadget, named “T2T” (meaning “tongue to teeth”), was created by boilermaker Adel Elseri and his friend, Said Fayad, both aged 26.They claimed that users can brush their teeth with the gizmo mounted to their tongue and coated with toothpaste.The newly developed tool is more hygienic than existing toothbrushes, Elseri and Fayad claimed.A Facebook page and Twitter account have been made to promote the
March 21, 2013
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Children who drink skim milk fatter
U.S. children ages 2-4 who drank skim milk or 1 percent milk had higher body mass index than those drinking whole milk, researchers say. Rebecca Scharf and Mark DeBoer, both of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and Ryan Demmer of Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University said the study involved 10,700 pre-school children. At age 2 the children body mass index was calculated and parents were asked what type of milk they gave their children. The children, a representative
March 21, 2013
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New 3-D method developed for mobile phones
Mobile phone users may soon be able to enjoy 3-D pictures and videos on their devices.Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Co. said that they had developed a new way of putting glassless 3-D video onto mobile phones.Although Nintendo has already adopted 3-D technology for a handheld gaming console, users can enjoy 3-D displays only by centering their eyes on the screen.The newly developed technology portrays a 3-D object by creating 64 different points of view, allowing users to see its every angle on
March 21, 2013
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Digital ‘talking head’ speaks for computer
A digital talking head named “Zoe” could be a first step toward a new era in human-computer interaction, British engineers say. The virtual “talking head” can express a full range of human emotions and could be used as a digital personal assistant or to replace texting with “face messaging,” the University of Cambridge reported Tuesday. Researchers at Toshiba‘s Cambridge Research Lab and the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering said the lifelike face can display emotions such as h
March 21, 2013
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New iPhone lock screen bug surfaces
A new bug has popped up in Apple's iOS 6 operating system a day after it was updated to address an iPhone lock screen vulnerability, Arstechnica reported.While the security flaw is different from the passcode bug targeted by Tuesday's iOS 6.1.3 update, it results in the same risk -- that of giving unauthorized access to an iPhone's contact list and photos -- tech site said Wednesday.The process, demonstrated in a YouTube posting by user videosdebarraquito, involves ejecting the phone's SIM card
March 21, 2013
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Samsung to drop LCD patent suit against LG Electronics
Samsung Display Co., the world’s biggest display maker, has decided to drop a patent suit against LG Electronics Co. over liquid-crystal display technologies, paving the way for both sides to end a long-running legal battle, industry sources said Wednesday.The two display giants have been embroiled in a patent tussle over organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and LCD technologies that broke out on the heels of a police investigation into an alleged leak of technologies from Samsung Display to LG D
March 20, 2013
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Patent disputes overshadow electronics industry
Patent infringement had not been a common phrase for the global electronics industry in the past, and companies only had to focus on ramping up the design factor to appeal to customers and create a feel that was different from others. The software that goes inside the device, or rather, just how much of the technology is really “theirs,” was not so significant. But that changed completely with the introduction of smartphones and other devices dubbed “smart,” a trend led by Apple Inc. a few years
March 20, 2013
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Sugary drinks linked to 180,000 deaths
Harvard researchers say they've linked sugary drinks to 180,000 deaths a year worldwide, 25,000 in the United States."We know that sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to obesity, and that a large number of deaths are caused by obesity-related diseases. But until now, nobody had really put these pieces together," lead author Gitanjali Singh, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, told ABC-TV News. Singh and colleagues used data from national health surve
March 20, 2013
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Globe's giant squids may be single species
A finding of exceptionally low genetic diversity suggests all giant squid worldwide are members of a single species, Danish researchers say.A study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B reported on DNA studies of the globe-trotting giant squid, which can grow as big as 43 feet long."These observations are consistent with the hypotheses that there is only one global species of giant squid, Architeuthis dux," researcher Inger Winkelmann and colleagues wrote, suggesting the squid coul
March 20, 2013
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Gov't seeks to set up 2nd operator of bullet trains
The government has decided to establish a second public firm to operate the country's KTX high-speed trains in an effort to inject greater competition into the railway system monopolized by the state-run Korea Railroad (KORAIL), officials said Wednesday.The move is expected to be finalized in a report to President Park Geun-hye slated for later this month, according to the officials from the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs.The new railroad company will likely handle the operatio
March 20, 2013
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Korean websites saddled with search-blocking code
When foreign fans type in “Psy” on major search engines, the results rarely include the Korean singer’s official homepage. The reason lies in a technical problem with Korean websites. According to industry sources, many Korean websites, including Psy’s homepage, have taken steps that block tracking and indexing by foreign search engines and portals. In detail, such websites usually insert a code like “robots.txt” to keep outside parties from indexing the details of their pages. The trouble is th
March 19, 2013
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Stress linked to higher risk of Alzheimer’s: study
A study suggested that constant stress could increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, according to British media.A research team from Umea University in Sweden studied the relationship between stress hormones in the brain and memories using mice. Results showed that highly stressed mice had higher levels of beta amyloids, proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease, and more allopregnanolone, specific stress hormones in the brain.Accumulated amyloids in mice brains impaired the brain synapses and co
March 19, 2013
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Insufficient sleep causes weight gain: study
A recent study suggests that people tend to gain weight when they are deprived of sleep for just a few days in a row, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Sleep experts at the University of Colorado recruited 16 healthy grown-ups and adjusted their sleeping hours to see the changes in their sleep patterns, metabolism and eating habits. According to the research, participants who had their sleeping hours cut from nine to five gained two pounds (0.9 kg) on average at the end of the experiment a
March 19, 2013